metastasis 的定义
plural me·tas·ta·ses [muh-tas-tuh-seez]. /məˈtæs təˌsiz/.
- Pathology. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.the condition produced by this.
- transformation.
- Rhetoric. a rapid transition, as from one subject to another.
- Physics. a change in position or orbit of an elementary particle.
metastasis 近义词
等同于 transition
更多metastasis例句
- Cancer spread to the lungs is one of the most common forms of metastasis in various cancers.
- But under the circumstances, they seem unable to stop its inexorable metastasis.
- Indeed, some 90 percent of cancer fatalities are the result of the metastasis rather than the primary tumor.
- I have thought that its origin might be accounted for on the principle of metastasis of morbid material.
- The gills have become shifted forward by a metastasis similar to that which brought the whole thoracic organs far forward in fish.
- We note here an interpretation of the first metastasis in terms of functional adaptation.
- In the same category of laminitis from metastasis may also be placed the laminitis occurring as a result of an overdose of aloes.
- When metastasis takes place, as it occasionally does, the fungus is transmitted by the blood vessels, as in pyæmia.